Shadow Slave

Usually, it would have taken Kai a lot longer to fly across the city to reach the tranquil terrace district… not that he would have. But today, the famous idol neglected his habit of staying low and out of sight. It seemed that his speed increased tremendously, as well, because ten minutes later, he was already at Sunny's door.

Maybe because of that, there was no crowd of paparazzi following him.

As they waited for Cassie, Effie rummaged through the empty refrigerator, then walked away from it with a disappointed sigh.

"There's no food!"

Sunny, who was evaluating the damage the boisterous huntress had done to the guest bedroom, glanced at her darkly.

"We've been gone for months. What did you expect?"

Effie made a sad face, then shrugged.

"But I'm hungry!"

Sunny let out an exasperated breath.

"...I have some synthpaste, if you want."

She shuddered and opened her mouth to retort, but at that moment, there was a knock on the door. If not for the haughty shadow standing guard outside — reluctantly, of course, since mundane tasks such as this were grossly beneath it — Sunny would have tensed up.

However, he already knew that it was Cassie.

The blind girl walked inside, froze for a moment, then raised a deliciously smelling package.

"...I brought food."

threw a quick glance

has some

stare at the archer for long,

assumed an almost hypnotizing quality. It was easy to get distracted if one

couldn't help but shake his

that no one he had ever met

And Sunny himself?

once predicted, but even he couldn't call himself unassuming anymore. The scrawny kid from the outskirts was gone. Instead, a young man with

to Sunny himself, golden threads of Weaver's

four of them settled around the table and shared a

joyous… well, except for Effie, who couldn't stop grinning and stealing glances at her pristine, vigorous body.

other free, however, just

on no matter how deep the wounds dealt to their souls cut. Now that the

slaughterhouse of the Red Colosseum, the nightmares, the assault on the Ivory

of demons to quell,

while, Kai poured himself a cup of tea, looked at Sunny, and

what happened? I don't remember much after being

fork and stared at the archer

You were swallowed by the

Kai smiled with embarrassment:

sort of… jumped into his mouth. Because I didn't know how

say anything. She even forgot about

looked down, then

deception because he had assumed that I would not trust anyone with the knives, I think. After you killed the dragon, there was no real reason for him to stay. He left to salvage

a few moments,